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Arts Festival weekend: Palm flowers make Jean Yao's art bloom

"First you should find something you really like to do. Then later you should work to refine your technique."

Fiber weaving artist Jean Yao tells young artists that the most important thing they can do is find a form or expression they love to work with. Once they find something they love, they'll find a way to get good at the execution.

Yao, born in Taiwan and trained in Japan in the art of ikebana - flower arranging - says she came to her present media of weaving palm fiber baskets out of the necessity of finding a medium she could work in.

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